With 2026 celebrated as the 60th anniversary of rocksteady, only a handful of people who helped make that genre famous remain alive. They include bass guitarists Boris Gardiner and Jackie Jackson, who ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

Get ready for the Reggae Rock Steady vibes of The New Rulers. Great horn section, great rasta feel, and a band that not only knows there music, but also knows the history behind it! Join Host Ken ...

From KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole: The days are longer and the weather is hotter, people it’s Reggae time once again in Los Angeles! It’s an honor being the annual host of Reggae NightHollywood Bowl at the as ...

On some days, the Kitchenette, a group of seven UCLA musicians, can be heard cooking up covers of reggae hits or rehearsing original rocksteady and ska-influenced melodies in Schoenberg Hall. On ...

It is dirty reggae/rocksteady/ska at its finest. L.A. should be proud to have created such a band, filled completely with white and mexican guys. <BR><BR>Reggae hit L.A. is the house favorite. Their ...